Koura Linda

Founder & CEO, Space Dream Productions

Founder & CEO of Space Dream Productions, Koura Linda grew up notorious for elaborate crepe-paper birthday party decorations and painting murals on any wall she could. She loved anything creative, and started writing out character developments, script ideas, and shot lists in notebooks as a kid. As soon as she could legally hold a job she was working as an art teacher's assistant.

Fast forward about a decade, after stumbling in with art department crew one summer she quickly fell in love with it and spent the next 10 years working on set and event design, eventually getting into full production design.

She never went to film school, or art school, or college, but knew that production design entails more than just set. So, she studied acting and writing and camera and lighting, working as a day-player where she could, taking a 3-day rigging intensive to become a certified set rigger and later working with electric, rigging lights and sets on stages across Los Angeles.

Following a sudden and critical medical event, Koura was forced to reevaluate her life and decide how to move forward with physical limitations and disabilities. Determined to continue making an impact through the arts, in 2013 she started an accessible independent production company which she now owns and runs with her husband, Spaceship, and the rest of their team.

Since September 2016, over 25 completed Space Dream Productions projects have received over 150 award nominations and have won 54 awards, including 12 projects nominated for or winning "Best Picture" categories at festivals around the world. Koura has been awarded "Best Director" for 3 different films.

In August 2019 Koura received the Mico Award in Las Vegas, for courage, innovation, and excellence in a career in film.

Her latest film "The End" has just been completed. The screenplay was written for and won the Screenwriter Showcase at the Silicone Valley International Film Festival, November 2022.